Notorious teen-aged gangster of Rajkot Shaktisinh alias Pendo and another criminal dead in internal clash over ‘booty’

Rajkot: A local gangster Shaktisinh Zala alias Pendo, who had gained enough notoriety at the age of 19 only and become a ‘terror of sorts’, and another criminal were killed in an alleged internal clash of their gangs over distribution of looted money in Aaji GIDC police station area of Rajkot last night, Commissioner of Police Anupam Gehlot today said.

Shaktisinh (19), a resident of Punitnagar area of the city, who was wanted in a number of cases including that of murder, attempt to murder, loot, snatching, extortion, robbery etc was found lying dead on a secluded place close to a river. The body of another criminal Prakash Lunagariya (35) , a native of Dhranghdra, was also recovered by the police from the spot which also nabbed the three others involved in the loot and internal clash.

Gehlot said that a total of five criminals including the two deceased had assembled at a secluded place close to the orchard near Aaji dam for loot last night. After looting a person, they clashed among themselves for distribution of money (Rs 5700/-). They attacked one another with rods and batons. When the police patrol team reached there injured Shaktisinh ran away only to be found dead from the close-by river bank. Prakash was taken to hospital where doctors declared both of them brought dead.

Three others Qadar, Yuvrajsinh and Prakash Parmar were nabbed. It is understood that Pendo and Yuvraj were on one side while the remaining three were on the other when they clashed.

Meanwhile, mother of Pendo, Neetaba zala said to be a bootlegger, has alleged that her son was killed by the police and not by his aides as claimed.

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